Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

he would act as chairman Of the Virginia
democratic central committee in the next
campaign, Mr. Barbour says he has done
nothing of the kidd and that the statement
referred to is wholly unauthorized.
The second meeting of the conference
committee on the anti Mormon bill last Sat
nrday evening came no nearer an agree
ment than the first. There will be no other
meeting until next Friday as Representa-.
tive Collins, of Boston, democrat, the chief
opponent OF the bill OH the committee, has
gone home and will net return before that
time.
Just as expected by al the knowing ones
about the Capitol, the Speaker refused to
recognize Mr.. Randall or any body else to- day
to move the consideration of the bill to re-
move the tax on tobacco. Mr.. Randall and
his friends having refused 10 allow any bill
for the reduction of the tariff to be consid-
cred, Speaker Carlisle, as the representative
of the democratic party, could not recognize
him to move the consideration of bill in
tended solely IS q means by which to pro-
long the duty on the necessaries of life.
This was the last day on which such mo-
ton as the one referred to could have been
made, except the last six days of the ses'
sion, during which, of course, there will be
no chance for such thing, and so, as all
along said in this correspondence, there will
be neither reduction in tariff nor internal
revenue by this congress.
Representative Campbell of Ohio, ad.
dressed the Virginia democratic association
of this city last Friday night, taking decd
ed ground in opposition to the Presidents
civil service policy. In this connection II
may be remarked that Senator COlquitt OF
Georgia, says thai though he did not say
anything against the policy referred 10 in
the debate on that subject in the Senate last
week, he thought just as Senators Salisbury,
Beck and Morgan said they did.
The counsel for the defense in the case oil
West, the negro chief of division
in the Interior Department, who knocked
down and tried to outrage Mrs. Page,
white lady clerk under him, are at
tempting to obtain hung jury by setting
| the Catholics and Protestants on it against
each other.
| In the Senate to-day Mr.. Riddleberger in pre-
senting some more petitions for local option In
the District of Columbia took occasion to say that
he had received letters from people in his State
censuring him for the failure of the Senate Dis
| trict of Columbia committee to act upon the Col
quit bill, and that he wanted those people to know
| that he was not now ana nau not oeen lot Il year
q member of that committee. He said it wa:
for that committee, not for him, to say why tht
bill referred to, after all the time it had been be-
fore them, had net been acted upon.
B. C. Kuehlng, of Fairfax county, Virginia, ha;
| been appointed ocksmith of the House OF Repre-
sentatives, vice Hays, of Maryland.
There is rumor current at the Capitol to-day
to the effect that Mr. Morrison will be called tc
the head of the Treasury department after Mr.
Manning shall have left it, bat it is not credited
the general impression still being that Assistant
| Secretary Farchild will BIO promoted.
| w. @. Bell has been appointed keeper of the
light house at Old Plantation Light, Virginia
vice L. F. Goodwin, resigned.
| Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of General R. E
Lee, is guest at Wormleys Hotel in this city.
| 1t is understood to-day that the President has
selected all th members of the commission created
| by the interstate commerce bill.
| Mr. Plumb, in the Senate to-day said the Presi
dent was responsible for tho delay IN opening the
land in Oklahoma to white and black settlers.
The democrats in the Senate to day allowed the
republicans to induce them to vote au appropria
tion of twenty million dollars for coast defences
| in order to reduce the surplus in the treasury and
afford plausible pretext for prolonging the exist
ing high tariff